noun · masculine
kainam
Strong’sG2536
Cainan
stem kainam-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Καινάμ (T, Καϊ-; Rec. Καϊνάν), ό, indecl. (Heb. קֵינָן),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2536 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkah-ee-nan'
Cainan (i.e. Kenan), the name of two patriarchs
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesCainan.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Cainam, Cainan;
__1. son of Enos (Gen.5:9): Luk.3:37.
__2. Son of Arphaxad (Gen.10:24 (LXX): Luk.3:36.†
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kainam | kainam |
| object accusative | kainam | kainam |
| direct address vocative | kainam | kainam |
| of, belonging to genitive | kainam2×Καϊνὰμ | kainam |
| to, for dative | kainam | kainam |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
kainam“Cainan”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 3:36tou Kainam tou Arfaxad tou Sēm tou Nōe …the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son …
Luke 3:37… Henōch tou Iaret tou Maleleēl tou Kainam… son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,